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He composed a memorandum, of which several copies were made, that revealed the truth about the massacre at Portella-that it was not just another example of seemingly irra- tional banditry but, instead, had been instigated by highly placed outsiders for purely political reasons. In it, Giuliano spelled out the reasons and named the in- stigators. One copy of the memorandum vias given into the keeping of his brother- in-law, Pasquale Sciortino, who was smuggled away to America. Then word of the nature of the memorandum was leaked to the authorities. Thus, for fear of the deadly secrets in GIuliano's pos- session, he could not be captured alive, nor-until it was certain that all copIes of the incriminating document were in safe hands-could he be killed. In the meantime, the daily butchery went on. It was the public outcry that followed the slaughter of eight carabinieri and the wounding of thirteen more in an am- bush that changed the climate for Giuliano. Until that time, the prosecu- tion of the war against him had heen directed-in an extremely devious man- ner-by the public-security police, un- der the command of ChIef Inspector Ciro Verdiani, suc- cessor to Don Calò's friend Inspector Messana Now the task was handed over to a special group called the Force for the Repression of Bandit- ry, commanded by Colonel U go L uca, of the carabinieri. Colonel Luca had his work cut out for him. The main difficulty he had to con- tend with was the undisguised hatred that existed between the public-security police, who reported to the Ministry of the Interior, and the carabinieri, who reported to the Ministry of War. The antipathy was a tradItional one, stem- ming from the carabinieri's pride in their status as a military organization, and their contempt-not unsullied by envy-for d rival force that was not ex- posed to military discipline and had, as the carabinieri saw it, a relatively soft time. Since it had proved quite impos- sible to draw a clear line between the functions of the two forces, overlapping took place constantly, and whenever It did, bitter friction was engendered. As a result, when Colonel Luca arrived in Palermo to take over from Inspector Verdiani, he made the discouraging discovery that all the documents relat- ing to the Giuliano band, and all the evidence gathered about its activities over three years, including Lieutenant Ragusa's cartridge cases, had been made to disappear. It was the first blow struck in the private war between the carabI- nieri colonel and the inspector of public security. Indeed, although Inspector Verdiani should have ceased at this stage to interest himself in any way in the Giuliano affair, he remained in close contact with the handIt through the Miceli family, who were Important mafiosi of Monreale; one might almost say that he made the bandit a protégé. For his part, Colonel Luca now set to work to liquidate the band. Italian public opinion wanted action at an costs, so the enthusiastic and imaginative press fed it with stories of trapped despera- does' last-ditch stands agaInst bodIes of hand-picked troops supported by para- chutists, reconnaissance planes, and heli- copters. Behind this stage scenery paint- ed wIth such fictitious violence, Luca tackled the problem in his own singular fashion. Having spent many years in Intelligence duties in the iddle East- a circumstance that inevitablv encour- aged the newspapers to call him "the Italian Lawrence of Arabia"-he was deeply Imbued with the attitudes of cloak-and-dagger fiction, and some of his actions almost parody the most im- probable doings of Somerset IVfaugham's secret agent, Ashenden. Luca had the idea of importing a professional assassin from Istanbul known as the Turk. The Turk was about forty- fi ve years of age, tough, thickset, and dumpy, and a little ridiculous in appearance; his fingers Were covered with rings, and he habitually wore shorts and a khaki desert forage cap with a neck protector. This imported specialist in violent death was a shy and taciturn man who would sit for hours eating enormous quantities of spaghetti and swilling down strong Sicilian wine He lived b) himself in a room in the carabinien barracks and, when not eat- ing, tinkered endlessly wIth a great col- lection of professional equipment that he had brought with him. On the rare occasions when he strolled outside the barracks, he was never without a mall leather caSe that was intended for a musical instrument but that actually housed a tiny submachine gun of Brit-